CalBusiness

Summer 2007

Connected @ Haas

Tom Kelley, MBA 83

IDEO General Manager Tom Kelley,
MBA 83, discussed his book, The
Ten Faces of Innovation at a Dean's Speaker Series event that was also part of Professor Jennifer Aaker's class on "Creativity and Innovation in Marketing."

Mary Ann Thode

Global healthcare professionals gathered for the Haas School's
inaugural, student-organized Business of Health Care Conference.
Keynote speakers included Kevin Young, executive vice president
of commercial operations for Gilead Science, and Mary Ann Thode,
president of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals for the
northern California region.

San Diego Padres CEO and Haas
School Board Member Richard "Sandy" Alderson addressed the importance of ethics in business in his commencement speech to this year's Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA class.

Leon Panetta and Nora Silver

Former White House Chief of Staff
Leon Panetta (pictured here with Nora Silver, director of the Nonprofit and Public Management Program) discussed advancing "public good" at this year's Nonprofit and Public Management Student-Alumni Leadership Dinner.

John Mackey

John Mackey, chairman and CEO
of Whole Foods Market, spoke on "Conscious Capitalism: A New Business Paradigm" for the Peterson Lecture Series on Corporate Responsibility.

John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, pictured with Intuit Chairman Bill
Campbell, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
On hand to pay tribute were partners Brook Byers and Tom Perkins.

MBA students from top schools tackled real-life challenges faced by leaders of education reform at the inaugural Haas Education Leadership Case Competition. Judges included Barak Ben-Gal, then financial services manager for Oakland Unified School District.

Mitchell Baker

Jennifer Maxwell

"Innovation: Beyond Business as Usual," was the theme for this year's
Women in Leadership Conference. Keynote speakers included Mitchell
Baker, CEO of Mozilla Corporation, and Jennifer Maxwell, co-founder
of PowerBar, who holds a BS in nutrition from UC Berkeley.

Aaron Brown

Aaron Brown, executive director
of risk methodology at Morgan Stanley, delivered the commencement address to the Master's
in Financial Engineering class. Brown's www.eRaider.com has
been named by Forbes as one of the best websites on investing.

William Banholzer

The inaugural Berkeley Energy Symposium highlighted
the work 150 leading researchers in the university community. Keynote
speakers included William Banholzer, chief technology
officer of Dow Chemical Company, and Nobel Laureate Steven Chu, director of
Lawrence Berkeley Lab.

Gordon Moore and Scott McNealy

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore
and Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy discussed "Innovation: In the USA and in the World" at the fifth annual Haas Alumni Celebration in San Francisco, hosted by Don Fisher, BS 50, founder and chairman of Gap Inc.

Marc Benioff

salesforce.com chairman and
CEO Marc Benioff addressed this year's MBA graduates at their commencement on May 20. Benioff is known both for pioneering web-based enterprise applications and for his commitment to philanthropy.